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As I watched nearly five dozen eager graduates of the Los Angeles Police Academy throw their hats in the air celebrating their achievement, I knew they were the survivors of a rigorous training, and that their journey wasn’t over. Ahead of them would be a full year of supervised field training, and it’s unlikely all of them would make it …

In 2003 Michael Josephson wrote a poem called “What Will Matter” (and later named a personal blog by the same name www.whatwillmatter.com). The poem has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times and more than two dozen videos of the poem have been made (see for example https://vimeo.com/22305901; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjPUzB1h0k; https://vimeo.com/89476173. Last month, Mr. Josephson wrote a new version of the …

“Leadership is not magnetic personality – That can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people,’ that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” – Peter Drucker

Words Matter Law Enforcement to Peace Officer; Warrior to Guardian; Use of Force to Response to Resistance; Retreat to Strategic Repositioning Law Enforcement vs. Peace Officer. When policing organizations describe themselves as law enforcement agencies and their officers as law enforcement officers it reinforces the view that the mission of the agency is almost exclusively limited to law enforcement. Another …

“The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interest of community welfare and existence.” – Robert Peel

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“Policeman” by Paul Harvey done in the style of that wonderful SUPER BOWL commercial “God Made A Farmer” narrated by Paul Harvey. This is a tribute to the many police officers who risk their
lives daily. We should never forget who are the first ones we call, when we are in danger.

Inspired by an open letter to our LEO Community that was written by Elizabeth Shiftwell. Please take a minute to watch, hear our support, and know that you are loved.

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